Agentic AI Engineer I: Inventory Solutions

Nordstrom; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 105,000 - 163,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Vision, Dental, Retirement

Paid Time Away

Life Insurance and Disability

Merchandise Discount and EAP Resources

Job summary

Nordstrom seeks an Engineer 1 to contribute to inventory‑focused AI tooling. You’ll build agent components, integrate tools, and write tests under the guidance of senior engineers.

You’ll learn how context engineering grounds agents in inventory data to ensure accurate, traceable results. You’ll participate in evaluation runs, on‑call rotations, and design reviews while adding instrumentation and following Nordstrom’s security standards.

Qualifications

• 1+ years of software engineering experience (internships count).
• Hands-on exposure to LLMs or foundation model APIs.
• Curiosity about agentic AI and production skills.
• Solid CS fundamentals and RESTful APIs knowledge.
• Git or version control experience.
• Willingness to learn LangGraph, CrewAI, Semantic Kernel, or Claude Agent SDK.
• Strong communication and collaboration abilities.

Responsibilities

• Implement agent components, tool integrations, prompts, and retrieval steps.
• Write tests and document work clearly.
• Learn context engineering and grounding agents in inventory context.
• Build and run evaluation scripts and offline benchmarks.
• Participate in on-call rotations and design reviews.
• Add instrumentation: logging, metrics, alerts; follow security standards.
• Collaborate across engineering, product, and business stakeholders.

Skills

1+ years experience

AI Fluency

Agentic AI interest

CS fundamentals

RESTful APIs

Testing & version control

LangGraph / CrewAI / Semantic Kernel

Communication skills

Tools

Jira

Slack

Confluence

Job description

Nordstrom seeks an Engineer 1 to contribute to inventory‑focused AI tooling. You’ll build agent components, integrate tools, and write tests under the guidance of senior engineers.

You’ll learn how context engineering grounds agents in inventory data to ensure accurate, traceable results. You’ll participate in evaluation runs, on‑call rotations, and design reviews while adding instrumentation and following Nordstrom’s security standards.